Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 315,000 - 560,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and benefits

Flexible working hours

Generous vacation and parental leave

Job summary

Anthropic, a public benefit corporation in San Francisco, seeks a Research Engineer/Scientist committed to advancing AI systems. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in language models and data optimization, contributing to the goal of safe and beneficial AI. Join a collaborative team focused on impactful research with far-reaching implications for humanity.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with language model training, evaluation, and inference.
• Experience with performance optimization and distributed systems.
• Knowledge in vm/sandboxing/container deployment and large-scale data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Work end-to-end on AI challenges, focusing on scientific AGI.
• Identify and address key blockers on the path to developing AI systems.

Skills

Language model training

Performance optimization

Distributed systems

Large scale data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Job description

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the Team

Our team is organized around the north star goal of building an AI scientist – a system capable of solving the long term reasoning challenges and basic capabilities necessary to push the scientific frontier. Our team likes to think across the whole model stack. Currently the team is focused on improving models' abilities to use computers – as a laboratory for long horizon tasks and a key blocker to many scientific workflows.

As a Research Engineer/Scientist on our team you will work end to end, identifying and addressing key blockers on the path to scientific AGI.

About the Role

Strong candidates should have familiarity with language model training, evaluation, and inference. Familiarity with performance optimization, distributed systems, vm/sandboxing/container deployment, and large scale data pipelines is highly encouraged.

Join us in our mission to develop advanced AI systems that are both powerful and beneficial for humanity. Our team offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge research problems with far-reaching implications for the future of AI.

The expected salary range for this position is:

Annual Salary:

$315,000—$560,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.